Kat Lehmann

Kat Lehmann is a Connecticut-based haiku poet and haibun writer who co-founded the journal whiptail: journal of the single-line poem. She is a former research biochemist. Her work explores tiny haiku-genre poems, haibun storytelling, and multi-haiku forms. She won the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize and The Haiku Foundation's 2020 Touchstone Award for Individual Poem. Her books include Stumbling Toward Happiness, Small Stones from the River, and Moon Full of Moons, all from 29 Trees. She has contributed several haibun to MacQueen's Quinterly from 2023 to 2026.